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SDGs and Human Rights: how to measure States’ compliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In September 2015 UN General Assembly approved the SDGs and all over the world the expectations focused on the new UN Development Agenda. Apparently, issues concerning Human Rights and Human security, including absence of violence, promotion of ...
TASCIONI, GAIA
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Developing a Global Soil Regime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
From the 1960s onwards, the global community became more aware of the phenomena of air and water pollution. More recently, the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become more prominent ...
Boer, Ben, Hannam, Ian
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The impact of COVID-19 in curbing the goals of ensuring sustainable development of life on land (SDG 15) and below water (SDG 14)

open access: yes, 2022
The widespread coronavirus pandemic has halted the progress of the sustainable development goals (SDG) proposed by the United Nations. This pandemic has already shattered the economy of not only the developing countries but also the developed nations. During this period, the primary focus was on the healthcare sector, while other developmental progress
Nirmal, Louis Anto, Jacob, Samuel
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Financial crises and the attainment of the SDGs: an adjusted multidimensional poverty approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper analyses the impact of financial crises on the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating poverty. To do so, we develop an adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Framework (MPF) that includes 15 indicators that span across key poverty aspects ...
A Antoniades   +79 more
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Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
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Connecting Life on Land (SDG 15) with Planetary Justice in the Amazon [PDF]

open access: yes
Contains fulltext : 311989.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Aoki Inoue, C.Y., Isaias Mendes, M.V.
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Making SDGs work for climate change hotspots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods have been widely documented. It is expected that climate and environmental change will hamper poverty reduction, or even exacerbate poverty in some or all of its dimensions. Changes in the biophysical
AghaKouchak, Amir   +14 more
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Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities.
Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike   +5 more
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Circular economy for climate neutrality: Setting the priorities for the EU. CEPS Policy Brief No 2019/04, 22 November 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The previous Commission policy on resources management was part of the priority for jobs and growth and economic competitiveness. The circular economy will be no less important for the new political priority of climate neutrality; it will become one of ...
Egenhofer, Christian.   +2 more
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Workshop report : Earth and Environmental Science for Sustainable Development (Nairobi, March 2017) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This report describes the outcomes of a two-day interactive workshop in Nairobi (Kenya), conducted in March 2017. We gathered 32 delegates from 22 organisations in Kenya to determine sustainable development priorities and consider the role of Earth and ...
Gill, J.C., Mankelow, J., Mills, K.
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